Endless…
The Boeung Kak lake community keeps putting pressure on the Phnom Penh Municipality. This time 18 families who were evicted in 2010 during the filling of the lake with sand, started in 2007 by a development company, demand that land titles be issued according to the size fo the land they had and not to the size of their former house.
At the same time a group of evictees from Kompong Chhnang who lost 100 hectares were protesting in the shadow of a tree in front of the Ministry of Justice.
There seems to be no end to these land issues…
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes and which reports on land issues in Cambodia since the year 2000 with texts by Robert Carmichael and over 700 photographs.
